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Show y AN OFT TOLD TALE, RUT NONE THE BiO WORSE OF REPEATING. Hlfll Tho Philadelphia Press probably will be ac- Hll cuscd of waving tho bloody shirt because it calls H 19 attention to tho fact that tho solid south rules PJJJJ II tho democratic party and the democratic party PJH'n rules tho nation. There nro thirteen states that PJH IJ can bo counted on to givo democratic majorities. PJJB D These aro Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Lou- piBm isiann, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, PJJJJtll Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma PJJJtw and Kentucky. IJHjf j These thirteen states sent to tho house of rep- PJJJIjt rescntntives 11G democratic members. A ma- PJJBIl jority of tho houso is 218, so these states have n PJJHII majority of that majority. These states givo PJJJHi twenty-six democratic senators. A majority of IJJJJJII tho senate is forty-nino. The party caucus die- IJJJJJjO tated tho legislation and tho twenty-six senators piHPM from tho Southern States were a majority of the PJJjr majority. li-MLl! What does tho South get in return for these PUHtji votes? These states furnish tho chairmen of all PJJJJJp tho Important committees of both branches of PjPBfc congress. There is but ono excoption, that of piliHij tho appropriations committee of tho house, PJJJJBIj which is headed by a New York democrat. All PijRL of tho measures dealing with tariff, business, PJJHIft banking, currency, judiciary, military and naval PJJHL affairs, public buildings, finance, rivers and har- JIIKtf bora, and liko important subjects arc in the PJJsj. hands of tho South. Hij What proportion of the burdens laid by con- pilHp grcss on tho country does the South boar? These pilHr thirteen states turned into tho treasury consider- Wp ably less than $2,000,000 of porsonnl income tax P-l-fl; j out of tho 41,000,000 collected from tho coun- IJJJJffj) try. Of the corporation iucomo tax, they to- PiHil gether paid $3,600,000 out of tho ?:t0.000,000 PffffBI collected. The states which framed and passed PJJJJni these taxation laws paid 4j per cent of tho per- PfV sonnl and less than 9 per cent of the corporation P-P- , incoino tax. Nino of the big manufacturing and piliBr business states paid 80 per cent of tho porsonnl pillH: , and two-thirds of tho corporation income tnx. PIIH! i These aro New York, Pennsylvania. Illinois, New PPB Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan, Connec- pillV ticnt and Rhode Island. This new taxation was PJJJJm -laid to offset the decrease in tho customs rov- H LLllH'il cnues brought about by lowering tho tariff. These nine states were hardest hit by the tariff changes. But they are called upon to bear the additional burden of providing the revenue made necessary by the taking nwny from them of their tariff protection. |